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Due: Wednesday, May 14

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Due: Wednesday, May 14

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Due: Thursday, April 17

Chap 39 – The Stalemated Seventies, 1968-1980

Richard Nixon

Spiro Agnew

Henry Kissinger

Warren Burger

Rachel Carson

George McGovern

John Dean III

Gerald Ford

Phyllis Schlafley

Jimmy Carter

Thurgood Marshall

Mohammed Reza Pahlevi (Shah of iran)

Leonid Brezhnev

Détente

Revenue sharing

Executive privilege

Vietnamization

Nixon Doctrine

My Lai massacre

Cambodian incursion

Kent State killings

Anti-Ballistic Missiles (ABM)

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA)

Clean Air Act

War powers Act

Energy crisis

OPEC

Watergate scandal

CREEP

Twenty-fifth amendment

Saturday Night Massacre

Helsinki accords

Title IX

Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

Roe v. Wade

Bakke case

Wounded Knee

National Organization for Women (NOW)

Camp David agreement

SALT II treaty

Iranian hostage crisis

Which was more important in creating the mood of public disillusionment in the 1970s: Watergate, the loss of Vietnam, or economic woes?

Due: Monday, April 14

Chap. 38 – The Stormy Sixties, 1960-1968

John F. Kennedy

Robert F. Kennedy

Robert S. McNamara

Lyndon B. Johnson

Michael Harrington

Malcolm X

Stokely Carmichael

J. William Fulbright

George Wallace

Flexible response

Credibility gap

New Frontier

Peace Corps

Bay of Pigs

Cuban Missile Crisis

Alliance for Progress

Freedom Rides

March on Washington

War on Poverty

Great Society

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Voting Rights Act of 1965

“black power”

Six-Day War

Operation Rolling Thunder

“hawks” and “doves”

Tet offensive

“Beat” poets

Students for a Democratic Society

Compare and contrast John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson as presidential leaders. In what ways were they similar, and in what ways were they different? Which do you consider the better president and why? Should either of them be ranked among America’s “ten best” presidents? Why or why not?

Explain and evaluate the culture and counter culture movements of the 1960s. Be sure to include all movements.

Due: Wednesday, April 9

Chap 37 Ids & Questions The Eisenhower Era, 1952-1960

Betty Friedan

Billy Graham

Dwight Eisenhower

Joseph McCarthy

Martin Luther King Jr.

Richard Nixon

Ho Chi Minh

Ngo Dinh Diem

Nikita Khrushchev

Fidel Castro

John F. Kennedy

“cult of domesticity”

McCarthyism

Sit-ins

“massive retaliation”

“spirit of Camp David”

“rocket (Sputnik) fever”

The Feminine Mystique

“televangelists”

Brown v. Board of Education

Checkers speech

Army-McCarthy hearings

Montgomery bus boycott

Dienbienphu

Suez crisis

Eisenhower Doctrine

U-2 incident

National Defense Education Act

Twenty-second amendment

How did the new American affluence and the Cold War shape American domestic life in the 1950s?

Critically evaluate President Eisenhower’s response to

The fall of Dienbienphu

The Hungarian revolt

The Suez Crisis

Castro’s revolution in Cuba

What signs of dissent and rebellion were evident amidst the literary culture of the 1950s?

Due: Thursday, March 20

Chap 36 Ids & Questions – The Cold War Begins, 1945-1952

Harry S. Truman

George F. Kennan

Douglas MacArthur

Joseph McCarthy

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Reinhold Niebuhr

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Dwight Eisenhower

Richard M. Nixon

Yalta Conference

Cold War

United Nations Security Council

Nuremberg Trials

Iron curtain

Berlin airlift

“Containment doctrine”

Truman Doctrine

Marshall Plan

National Security Act

White flight

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Taft-Hartley Act

House Committee on Un-American Activities

McCarran Act

Atomic Energy Commission

Fair Deal

Hydrogen bomb

NSC-68

Thirty-eighth parallel

To what degree do you think each of the following contributed to the Cold War?

President Truman’s style

The Soviet Union’s security interests

American expectations for the postwar world

What motivated the large-scale postwar migration to the Sunbelt and the suburbs? To what extent was this movement a result of social changes like the baby boom, and to what extent was it a result of deliberate federal policies like federal housing loans, military spending, and the interstate highway system?

What was the impact of suburban living on American women? How did it affect American men? In what ways did it plant the seeds for later social change?

Due: Monday, March 17

Top of Form

Chap 35 – America in World War II, 1941-1945 Henry Stimson A. Philip Randolph Douglas MacArthur Chester W. Nimitz Dwight D. Eisenhower Joseph Stalin Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) Harry S. Truman Albert Einstein War Production Board Office of Price Administration WAACs “Rosie the Riveter” Braceros Fair Employment Practices Commission Casablanca Conference Second front Teheran Conference D-Day Battle of the Bulge Yalta Conference Potsdam Conference Manhattan Project 1. How did World War II affect a. The role of the national government in American life? b. The relationship between government and the economy? c. Minority groups? 2. World War II is sometimes called “the good war.” Is this a legitimate designation? What features of the war most obviously make it seem “good”? What aspects of the war were morally troubling?

Bottom of Form

Due: Friday, March 14

Chapter 34 – Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War, 1933-1941

Cordell Hull

Joseph Stalin

Benito Mussolini

Adolf Hitler

Francisco Franco

Winston Churchill

Charles Lindbergh

Wendell Willkie

Totalitarianism

Isolationism

Appeasement

London Economic Conference

Good Neighbor policy

Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act

Nazi party

Rome-Berlin axis

Invasion of Ethiopia

Neutrality Acts

Spanish Civil War

China incident

“Quarantine Speech”

Hitler-Stalin nonaggression pact

“cash-and-carry”

“phony war”

Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies

America First Committee

Destroyers-for-bases deal

Lend-Lease

Nye Committee

FRQ:

1. Discuss and analyze at least three basic issues responsible for causing World War II.

2. Assess President Roosevelt’s conduct of American foreign policy after 1935. When and why did he move from isolationism to interventionism in the European war? (also do you think that he purposely led the U.S. into war, why or why not).

Due: Friday, March 7

Unit 5 Test Chap 28-33 DBQ

Due: Thursday, March 6

Unit 5 Test Chap 28-33 FRQ

Due: Wednesday, March 5

Unit 5 Test Chap 28-33 Multiple choice test

Due: Monday, March 3

Chap 33 – The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1933-1939

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt

Harry Hopkins

Frances Perkins

Father Coughlin

Huey long

Mary McLeod Bethune

Harold Ickes

George W. Norris

John L. Lewis

New Deal

Brain Trust

Hundred Days

The “Three Rs”

Glass-Steagall Act

Civilian Conservation Corps

Works Progress Administration

National Recovery Act

Schechter case

Public Works Administration

Agricultural Adjustment Act

Dust Bowl

Securities and Exchange Commission

Tennessee Valley Authority

Federal Housing Authority

Social Security Act

Wagner Act

National Labor Relations Board

Congress of Industrial Organizations

Liberty League

Court-packing plan

Keynesianism

Essay Questions – FRQs: Do both questions

1. “The New Deal secured the support of labor and agriculture after 1932 as the Republican party had secured the support of industry and commerce since 1920 – with special interest programs giving financial aid, legal privileges, and other types of assistance.” Assess the validity of this statement, giving attention to both periods (1920-1932 and 1932-1940).

2. Identify THREE of the following New Deal measures and analyze the ways in which each of the three attempted to fashion a more stable economy and a more equitable society.

Agricultural Adjustment Act

Securities and Exchange Commission

Wagner National Labor Relations Act

Social Security Act

Due: Wednesday, February 26

Chap 32 - The Politics of Boom and Bust, 1920-1932

Warren G. Harding

Charles Evans Hughes

Andrew Mellon

Herbert Hoover

Albert B. Fall

Harry M. Daugherty

Charles R. Forbes

Calvin Coolidge

Robert La Follette

Alfred E. Smith

“Ohio Gang”

Trade associations

American Legion

Washington Conference

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Fordney-McCumber Tariff

Teapot Dome

McNary-Haugen Bill

Progressive Party

Dawes Plan

“Hoovercrats”

Hawley-Smoot Tariff

Black Tuesday

Muscle Shoals Bill

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

Bonus army

Stimson doctrine

1. Describe the relationship among American tariff policy, war debts and reparations, and the Great Depression. Explain why the federal government adopted the tariff and debt-repayment policies it did. Assess the wisdom of these policies.

2. In the years 1900-1920 progressivism enjoyed widespread support among the American public. Why were progressives of the 1920s, including La Follette’s progressive party, so uninfluential? What happened to progressives and their ideals?

3. It has been said that the 1920s saw a shift from the “old” Republican philosophy of small government to a new belief that government ought to actively aid business. What evidence is there for this view? In what ways did Republican presidents continue to believe that government should keep “hands off” the economy?

Due: Friday, February 21

Chapter 31 – American Life in the “Roaring Twenties,” 1919-1929

Ids & Chapters

A. Mitchell Palmer

Al Capone

John T. Scopes

William JenningsBryan

Clarence Darrow

Andrew Mellon

Henry Ford

Fredrick W. Taylor

Charles Lindbergh

Margaret Sanger

Sigmund Freud

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Ernest Hemingway

Sinclair Lewis

William Faulkner

Nativist

Cultural pluralism

Progressive education

Red Scare

Sacco and Vanzetti case

Ku Klux Klan

The Birth of a Nation

Immigration Quota Act

Volstead Act

Fundamentalists

Modernists

United Negro Improvement Association

The Great Gatsby

1. Do you think that the 1920s should be most noted as a decade of anxiety and intolerance or a decade of cultural innovation and liberation? What were the deepest forces shaping American culture in this period?

2. Some historians have considered the tensions of the 1920s in terms of a rural backlash against a rising urban America. Do you agree with this proposition? Why or why not?

3. What part did African American artists, writers, and musicians play in the new culture of the 1920s? How do you explain this burst of cultural creativity at a time when most blacks were still oppressed and segregated?

Due: Tuesday, February 18

Chap 30 – The War to End War, 1917-1918

Ids & Questions

George Creel

Eugene V. Debs

Bernard Baruch

Herbert Hoover

Alice Paul

Henry Cabot Lodge

Warren G. Harding

Self-determination

Collective security

Conscription

“normalcy”

Zimmermann note

Fourteen Points

League of Nations

Committee on Public Information

Espionage and Sedition acts

Schenck v. United States

Industrial Workers of the World

War Industries Board

Nineteenth Amendment

Eighteenth Amendment

Bolsheviks

Doughboys

Big Four

Treaty of Versailles

1. Summarize the impact of American participation in World War I on

a. the national economy

b. civil liberties

c. public attitudes

2. Summarize President Wilson’s Fourteen Points. Which were substantially attained as a result of American participation in World War I? Which were not? Why?

3. Why did the United States fail to join the League of Nations? Consider the role of

Wilson himself, Henry Cabot lodge, the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles, American political traditions.

Due: Wednesday, February 12

Chap 29 - Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad, 1912-1916

Ids & Questions

Woodrow Wilson

Louis D. Brandeis

Victoriano Huerta

Pancho Villa

John J. Pershing

Kaiser Wilhehm II

New Nationalism

New Freedom

Underwood Tariff Bill

Sixteenth Amendment

Federal Reserve Act

Federal Trade Commission Act

Clayton Act

Federal Farm Loan Act

Workingmen’s Compensation Act

ABC Powers

Sarajevo

Central Powers

Allies

Lusitania

U-boat

Sussex

1. Compare and Contrast Roosevelt’s New Nationalism and Wilson’s New Freedom programs. Which seems to you to be the more realistic response to industrialization? Why?

2. Critically evaluate Woodrow Wilson’s personal qualities as well as his presidential leadership and policies. How did his personality affect his policies and their outcome?

3. It has been said that despite his intentions and idealistic pronouncements, “Woodrow Wilson’s Latin American and Caribbean policy became simply an extension of Roosevelt’s ‘big stick’.” Do you agree? Why or why not?

Due: Monday, February 10

Pick one of the essay questions from Chapter 28 and answer turn in on Monday. Monday we have a guest speaker on Coal Mining

1. Theodore Roosevelt is sometimes called the “first modern president.” Interpret this phrase and explain how it fits Roosevelt’s conduct of the office.

2. In the view of progressives, what was wrong with American society? What solutions did they propose to address social problems? Be specific.

3. Progressives believed that “the cure for the ills of democracy was more democracy.” How did progressive reforms attempt to bring “more democracy” to American society and government? In what areas were their reforms most successful? In what areas did they largely fail to succeed?

Due: Wednesday, February 5

Unit 4 test Chapters 22-27 DBQ

Due: Tuesday, February 4

Unit 4 test Chapters 22-27 FRQ

Due: Monday, February 3

Unit 4 test Chapters 22-27 multiple choice test

Due: Thursday, January 30

Chap 27 – Empire and Expansion, 1890-1909

Alfred Thayer Mahan

James G. Blaine

Richard Olney

Valeriano Weyler

Dupuy de Lome

Theodore Roosevelt

George Dewey

Emilio Aguinaldo

William Howard Taft

John Hay

Philippe Bunau-Varilla

Jingoism

Imperialism

Guerrilla warfare

Spheres of influence

“yellow peril”

Yellow journalism

Pan-American Conference

Maine

Teller Amendment

Rough Riders

Treaty of Paris – which one?

Anti-Imperialist League

Foraker Act

Insular cases

Platt Amendment

Philippine insurrection

Open Door notes

Boxer Rebellion

Big-stick diplomacy

Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty

Panama Canal

Roosevelt Corollary

Russo-Japanese War

Portsmouth Conference

Gentlemen’s Agreement

Great White Fleet

Chap 27 questions

1. Assess the wisdom of

a. the Teller Amendment

b. the Platt Amendment

c. The Supreme Court’s decisions in the insular cases

2. What do you consider the most important domestic and foreign-policy consequences of the Spanish-American War? Why?

3. Assess Theodore Roosevelt’s conduct of American foreign policy, especially in Latin America and Asia. Did it result in more harm than good to all concerned, or vice versa? Justify your conclusion.

Due: Monday, January 27

Chap 26 – The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution, 1865-1896

Ids & Questions

Sitting Bull

George A. Custer

Chief Joseph

Geronimo

Helen Hunt Jackson

William F. Cody

Mary Elizabeth Lease

Fredrick Jackson Turner

Eugene V. Debs

William McKinley

William Jennings Bryan

Sioux Wars

Nez Perce

Ghost Dance

Battle of Wounded Knee

Dawes Severalty Act

Little Big Horn

Buffalo Soldiers

Comstock Lode

Homestead Act

Sooner State

Safety-valve theory

Bonanza farms

National Grange

Granger Laws

Farmers’ Alliance

Colored Farmers’ National Alliance

Populist (People’s) Party

Pullman Strike

Cross of Gold Speech

Gold Standard Act

Dingley Tariff bill

Coxey’s Army

Populists often charged that there was conspiracy between government and big business aimed at holding down farmers and workers, and the federal courts were only the tools of banks and big business. What evidence did they cite for this charge? Does this argument convince you, why or why not?

If you lived at this time, which would you have most wanted to join: the mining frontier, the ranching frontier, or the farming frontier? Why?

The authors contend that “American history cannot be properly understood unless it is viewed in light of the westward-moving experience.” Do you agree? Why or why not? What unique contributions did the frontier make to American life?

Due: Wednesday, January 22

Chap 25 – America Moves to the City, 1865-1900

Ids & Questions

Jane Addams

Florence Kelley

Dwight Lyman Moody

James Gibbons

Booker T. Washington

W.E.B. Du Bois

William James

Henry George

Horatio Alger

Mark Twain

Carrie Chapman Catt

Charles W. Eliot

Emily Dickinson

Henry Adams

Jack London

Theodore Dreiser

Victoria Woodhull

Settlement house

New immigration

Social Gospel

Pragmatism

Talented tenth

Land-grant colleges

Macy’s/Marshall Field’s

Hull House

The Origin of Species

Salvation Army

Christian Science

Chautauqua movement

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Morrill Act

Progress and Poverty

Comstock Law

Women’s Christian Temperance Movement

“Richardsonian”

Cite at least one figure in each of the following categories and describe the major theme of his or her work. Then tell why you think your choice reflects the reality of life in the late nineteenth century in each case:

a. Journalism and popular writing

b. Serious novels and poetry

c. Sculpture and architecture

2. What was the impact of industrialization and urbanization on late-nineteenth-century American churches, schools, and family life? Cite at least two changes wrought on each of these institutions during this period.

3. The text’s authors allege that “women were growing more independent in the urban environment of the cities” in the late nineteenth century. What did the city environment have to do with women’s liberation and what forms did their new independence take?

Due: Thursday, January 16

Chap 24 – Industry Comes of Age, 1865-1900

Ids & Questions

Leland Stanford

Collis P. Huntington

James J. Hill

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Jay Gould

Alexander Graham Bell

Thomas Edison

Andrew Carnegie

John D. Rockefeller

J. Pierpont Morgan

Terence Powderly

Samuel Gompers

Philip Armour

William Graham Sumner

Russell Conwell

Herbert Spencer

James Buchanan Duke

Land grant

Stock watering

Pool

Rebate

Vertical integration

Horizontal integration

Trust

Interlocking directorate

Capital goods

Plutocracy

Trust-busting

Company town

Anarchists

Closed shop

Union Pacific Railroad

Central Pacific Railroad

Grange

Wabash case

Bessemer process

United States Steel

Gospel of wealth

Sherman Act

New South

Interstate Commerce Act

National Labor Union

Haymarket Riot

American Federation of Labor

1. Compare and contrast the methods used by late-nineteenth-century corporations to control competition – especially the pool, trust, interlocking directorate, and vertical integration.

2. Compare and contrast the National Labor Union, Knights of Labor, and the American Federation of Labor in regard to their origins, goals, and leadership. Account for the failure of the first two and for the success of the AFL.

3. What are the arguments used by “survival of the fittest” theorists like William Graham Sumner and Herbert Spencer to justify harsh business practices? Why is it unfair and misleading to call their theories “social Darwinism” or is it?

Due: Monday, December 16

Chap 23 – Politics in the Gilded Age, 1869-1896

Ids & Questions

Ulysses S. Grant

Jim Fisk

Jay Gould

Thomas Nast

Horace Greeley

Jay Cooke

Roscoe Conkling

Rutherford B. Hayes

Samuel Tilden

James A. Garfield

Chester A. Arthur

Grover Cleveland

Benjamin Harrison

William McKinley

William JenningsBryan

J. P. Morgan

Soft/cheap money

Hard/sound money

Resumption

Gilded Age

Spoils system

Crop-lien system

Pork-barrel bills

People’s Party (Populists)

Grandfather clause

The “bloody shirt”

Tweed Ring

Credit Mobilier

“Crime of ‘73”

Bland-Allison Act

Greenback Labor party

Grand Army of the Republic (GAR)

Stalwart

Half-Breed

Compromise of 1877

Pendleton Act

Mugwumps

Plessy v. Ferguson

Jim Crow

Chinese Exclusion Act

Sherman Silver Purchase Act

McKinley Tariff

1. What explains the rise of the Populist Party in the 1890s? Were the Populists reflecting only farmers’ discontent, or did they express a deeper disaffection with the weaknesses of the two-party system?

2. What were the causes and effects of the depression of the 1890s?

3. How did racial issues, including Chinese immigration, affect economic and political developments of the Gilded Age?

Due: Thursday, December 12

Chap 22 The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865-1877

Ids and Questions

Freedmen’s Bureau

“Exodusters”

Wade-Davis Bill

10 percent plan

Moderate/radical Republicans

Black Codes

Sharecropping

Civil Rights Act

Fourteenth Amendment

Reconstruction Act

Fifteenth Amendment

Scalawags

Carpetbaggers

Ku Klux Klan

Force Acts

Tenure of Office Act

“Seward’s Folly”

1. What were the key elements of President Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction policies that stirred objections from Congressional Republicans? Why did congressional leaders so strongly object to those policies?

2. Radical Republicans have been both credited with having high ideals and accused of crass partisanship as motives for their Reconstruction policies. Which argument do you find more persuasive? Why?

3. It has been wryly observed that “the North won the Civil War, but the South won Reconstruction.” Interpret this statement and assess its truth.

Key ideas are:

Who is in charge of readmitting the states back into the Union? President because states were in rebellion (President, commander and chief of the armed forces) or Congress because they left and have to be readmitted (under Northwest Ordinance)

How does the United States integrate freed black Americans into society?

Due: Tuesday, December 3

Chapter 21 Ids & Questions

Andrew Johnson

John Wilkes Booth

Robert E. lee

Ulysses S. Grant

George B. McClellan

William T. Sherman

George B. Meade

Salmon P. Chase

David G. Farragut

Merrimack (the Virginia)

Monitor

Emancipation Proclamation

Thirteenth Amendment

Copperheads

First Battle of Bull Run

Second Battle of Bull Run

Battle of Antietam

Peninsula Campaign

Battle of Gettysburg

Battle of Vicksburg

Gettysburg Address

Explain the economic, military, and diplomatic results of the Union victory and Confederate defeat in the Civil War. What do you think was the main reason that the South lost? Explain your choice.

Explain why General Sherman conducted the devastating “march to the sea.” Explain in what ways this was like conducting modern “total war.”

To what extent did the Civil War slow the United States Industrial Revolution, or did it help usher in modern America?

Due: Friday, November 22

Chap 20 – Girding for War: The North and the South, 1861-1865

Ids & Questions

Napoleon III

Maximilian

Clara Barton

William H. Seward

Edwin M. Stanton

Jefferson Davis

Abraham Lincoln

Morrill Tariff Act

National Banking Act

Trent Affair

Alabama

King Cotton

Draft Riots

Martial law

Border States

FortSumter

“Johnny Reb”

“Billy Yank”

Union Confederacy

Indian Territory

1. Assess the validity of the following statement, “the South’s devotion to states’ rights was a major reason for its failure to win the Civil War.”

2. The Civil War began in 1861. Why was it 1863 before Lincoln committed the Union to the emancipation of slaves?

3. To what extent was President Lincoln justified in his violations of ordinary civil liberties during the Civil War? Why or why not?

4. Identify the significance of the Border States to both the North and the South. How did they influence the shaping of Union strategy?

Due: Tuesday, November 19

Chap 19 – Drifting Toward Disunion, 1854-1861

Ids & Questions

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Hinton R. Helper

John Brown

James Buchanan

Charles Sumner

John C. Fremont

Dred Scott

Roger Taney

John Crittenden

Jefferson Davis

Abraham Lincoln

Self-determination

Southern nationalism

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

The Impending Crisis of the South

New England Immigrant Aid Society

Pottawatomie Creek Massacre

Lecompton Constitution

“Bleeding Kansas”

Know-Nothing party

Dred Scott decision

Panic of 1857

Lincoln-Douglas debates

Freeport Doctrine

Harpers Ferry Raid

“Beecher’s Bibles”

Crittenden Compromise

1. What were the implications of the Dred Scott decision for:

a. the status of free blacks in the United States?

b. the concept of popular sovereignty?

c. the future of slavery in America?

2. Rank the following in order of their importance to the coming of the Civil War: Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott decision, John Brown’s raid, Lincoln’s election. Justify your ranking.

3. Compare and contrast the criticism in Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin to Helper’s The Impending Crisis of the South. Which had more dramatic effect on public opinion? Why?

4. In Varying Viewpoints, the authors argue that both Northerners and Southerners saw their way of life threatened. How and why could both feel this way?

Due: Thursday, November 14

Chap 18 – Renewing the Sectional Struggle, 1848-1854

Ids & Questions

Stephen A. Douglas

Franklin Pierce

Zachary Taylor

John C. Calhoun

Winfield Scott

Martin Van Buren

Daniel Webster

Matthew C. Perry

Harriet Tubman

William H. Seward

Henry Clay

Millard Fillmore

Popular Sovereignty

Filibustering

Free Soil party

Fugitive Slave Law

“personal liberty laws”

Underground Railroad

Compromise of 1850

“fire eaters”

Ostend Manifesto

“higher law”

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Gadsen Purchase

Treaty of Wanghia

1. Explain the widespread popularity of the concept of popular sovereignty as a way to resolve the issue of slavery in the territories. Then explain why it ultimately failed.

2. To what extent was the Kansas-Nebraska Act a serious mistake for southern interests.

3. The authors argue that the North “got the better of the Compromise of 1850.” Do you agree? Why or why not?

Due: Friday, November 8

Chap 17 Ids and Questions

John Tyler

John Slidell

Winfield Scott

Zachary Taylor

James K. Polk

Stephen W. Kearny

John C. Fremont

Santa Anna

William Henry Harrison

Manifest Destiny

Webster-Ashburton Treaty

“spot” resolutions

Tariff of 1842

Bear Flag Revolt

Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

Liberty party

Aroostook War

Wilmot Proviso

Whigs

Oregon fever

Maine

Rio Grande

1. Given the great enthusiasm for territorial expansion, why did the “all of Mexico” movement fail?

2. Write your definition of national interest. Then use this definition to argue that the Webster-Ashburton Treaty or the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo did or did not serve the national interests of the United States.

3. List the following items in order of their importance as contributors to American expansion to the Pacific: land hunger, trade opportunities, suspicion of British intentions, Manifest Destiny. Justify your ranking and explain how each item contributed to territorial expansion.

Due: Tuesday, November 5

Chapter 16 – The South and the Slavery Controversy, 1793 – 1860

Ids & Questions

Harriet Beecher Stowe

William Lloyd Garrison

Denmark Vesey

David Walker

Nat Turner

Sojourner Truth

Frederick Douglass

Elijah P. Lovejoy

Oligarchy

Abolitionism

“positive good”

Monopolistic

Mulatto population

Cotton Kingdom

The Liberator

American Anti-Slavery Society

Peculiar institution

Liberty Party

Gag Resolution

American Colonization Society

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

What would be your view on slavery if you were a typical

Planter aristocrat

Small slaveowner

Nonslaveowning white

Mountain southerner

Free black

Answer for each.

It has been argued that both Britain and the North were tied to the South with “cotton threads” Explain.

Assess the validity of the following statement, “slaves were better off than both wage earners in northern industry and free blacks back in Africa.” Do you agree? Why or why not?

1. How do the Knickerbocker group, Hudson River school, and transcendentalists all reflect “nationalism” of early-nineteenth-century America? What particularly “American” values did each reflect?
2. Why were women prominenet in the reform crusades of the early nineteenth century? What contribution did they make to social reform?
3. How did each of the following encourage social reform: Second Great Awakening, industrialization, nostalgia for the past?
4. In the reform movements of the first half of the 1800s, historians have regarded some reformers in the abolitionist movement not so much as heroes, but as people who sought social control. What is your opinion?

1. The Text’s authors crown John Marshall as “the foremost of the Molding Fathers,” whereas a contemporary newspaper editorial condemned him as “a man whose political doctrines led him always…to strengthen government at the expense of the people.” Which point of view do you think has the most substance? Why?

2. Which do you think was the most significant event of the decade following the Treaty of Ghent: panic of 1819, McCulloch v. Maryland, Florida Purchase Treaty, Missouri Compromise, Monroe Doctrine? Justify your selection.

3. Assess the validity of the following statement, “America may not have fought the war as one nation, but it emerged as one nation.”

1. Why do the text’s authors refer to the case Marbury v. Madison as “epochal”? Describe the short- and long-term ramifications of the decision.

2. What basis did Thomas Jefferson have for believing that American Trade could be used as a diplomatic tool? Would you judge his economic coercion policy a failure or a success? Why or why not?
3. Assess the Jefferson presidency. What do you feel were his most important legacies? Explain your choices.

1. What were the pros and cons of the creation of a National Bank? What political and constitutional issues were involved in this piece of legislation?

2. Assess the extent to which the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 played a role in shaping American history after 1800?

3. Very early in its national history, the United States established a tradition of isolationism in its foreign policy. How did the Neutrality Proclamation and Washington’s Farewell address contribute to this tradition?

1. Account for the widespread and enthusiastic colonial reception of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense.
2. Explain why the text’s authors conclude that the Franco-American alliance was “not prompted by a love for America but a realistic concern for the interests of France.” In what ways did the French contribute to colonial independence?
3. The combat of the Revolutionary War began in spring 1775. Why did colonists wait until the summer of 1776 to declare independence?

1. In what ways were the mercantilist policies of the British burdensome to the colonists? In what ways were they beneficial? From this comparison, draw a conclusion about the effects of mercantilism and the Navigation Laws on British-colonial relations up to 1763.

2. Explain the following quote, “Insurrection of thought usually precedes insurrection of deed.” What does this mean? In what ways is this generalization an accurate description of the coming of the American Revolutionary War?

3. Compare and Contrast the advantages and disadvantages of the British and the colonists, respectively, as the American Revolutionary War began? What would Britain have to do to win? What would the colonists have to do to win?

1. Why did the Ohio Valley become the arena of conflict between the French and British in America?

2. Compare and contrast the reasons for unity and the reasons for disunity in the American colonies before and after the French and Indian War.

3. To what extent did the Seven Years’ War (French and Indian War) help cause the American Revolutionary War?

Due: Tuesday, September 3

Chapter 5 – Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution, 1700-1775 Ids and questions
Define or describe and explain the historical significance of the following:
Jonathan Edwards
Benjamin Franklin
George Whitefield
John Peter Zenger
Phillis Wheatley
John Singleton Copley
Charles Wilson Peale
Andrew Hamilton
Paxton Boys
Great Awakening
Anglicans
Triangular trade
Molasses Act
Scots-Irish
Naval stores
Praying towns
Taverns
Congressional Church
Presbyterian
Arminians
Heresies
Old Lights
New Lights
Essay Questions
1. Assess the extent to which the Great Awakening, an intensely religious movement, contributed to the development of the separation of church and state in America.
2. Early America was not a world of equality and consensus, yet many immigrants poured in, seeing America as a land of opportunity. How could they draw such a conclusion?
3. What were the short term and long term consequences of the American colonists seeking foreign markets for their exports?

Due: Thursday, August 29

Chapter 4 – American Life in the Seventeenth Century, 1607 – 1692
Ids & questions
Define or describe and explain the historical significance of the following:

Essay Questions
1. Argue either that an "American" way of life had emerged by the end of the seventeenth century or that two wholly distinct ways of life, one New England and the other southern, had emerged by the end of the seventeenth century.

2. . Assess the validity of the following statement, “democracy in church government led logically to democracy in political government.”

3. Identify the main cause of Bacon’s Rebellion: resentment felt by backcountry farmers, Governor Berkeley’s Indian policies, or the pressure of the tobacco economy? Justify your choice.

Essay Questions:
1. Assess the validity of the following statement, “Although colonists both north and south were bound together by a common language and a common allegiance to Mother England, they established different patterns of settlement, different economies, different political systems, and even different sets of values.”
HINT: Think about the motives of founders, religious and social orientation, economic pursuits, and political developments.

2. What did John Winthrop mean when he said, “we shall be a city upon a hill.” Did the Massachusetts Bay Colony reach this objective? Why or why not?

3. State and explain your position on whether or not political authority should be used to enforce a particular view of morality. Then explain why you would or would not have been in favor of banishing Roger Williams and/or Anne Hutchinson from Massachusetts Bay.

Due: Thursday, August 22

Chapter 2 – The Planting of English America – 1500-1733 Id’s and questions
Define or describe and explain the historical significance of the following:

Essay questions
1. In many ways, North Carolina was the least typical of the five plantation colonies. Describe the unique features of colonial North Carolina and explain why this colony was so unlike its southern neighbors.
2. Compare and contrast the ways in which tobacco and sugar affected the social and economic development of colonial America.

Essay questions:
1. Describe the impact of Europeans on Native American (Indian) cultures and the impact of native cultures on Europeans. Then explain why it was or was not a good thing that European culture prevailed.
2. Summarize the motives, expectations, problems, and rewards associated with the age of European expansion.
3. Describe what is meant by the Spanish ‘Black Legend.’ What is your assessment of the Spanish impact on North American cultures – positive or negative? Why?